Fitting Cooker Hoods: Do it Yourself Installation Guide

Cooker hoods are useful to remove unpleasant cooking odours from the kitchen. Fitting cooker hoods depends on the size and style of your kitchen. Cooker hoods can either be designed as a cooker chimney, while some others can be integrated into kitchen units. When buying a cooker hood, check its noise levels and the performance in cubic metres per hour for each motor speed to help you when making comparisons. While fitting or installing cooker hoods, remember that they must be ducted to the outside of the house using the correct size ducting. Also, the cooker hood must be powerful enough to change the air in the kitchen ideally 12 times per hour. Helping you keep your kitchen free of as steam, vapour, smoke and odours, fitting cooker hoods makes your kitchen a pleasant place.

When ducting is impossible, then cooker hood can be fitted in the re-circulating mode. Fitting cooker hoods in such scenarios requires the correct charcoal filter, which needs to be replaced periodically. Fitting cooker hoods, especially free standing ones, is usually an option when the kitchen has not been built as per the requirements of a cooker hood. Moreover, cheap cooker hoods aren’t necessarily any easier to fit than other cooker hood models. The Integrated cooker hood is used in fitted kitchens and is always fitted between wall units and has a door on the front to match the other kitchen furniture. Built-in and Canopy Hoods are fitted into the base plate of wooden or metal canopies. Such cooker hoods are only visible when viewed from below as they are generally fitted into specially made decorative canopies. Fitting a cooker hood is an easy job depending on the type of hood and kitchen you have. Some popular models of cooker hoods are Baumatic F90.2SS, Elica Star, Hoover HFT60, CDA CPX9, Elica OM, AEG HD6470M, the F60.2SS Baumatic cooker hood, Smeg KSEC61NE, Smeg KSED92X, Whirlpool AKR 958, CDA A1 and CDA CPX11.